St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-02
One of the Witnesses Charged
With a LiaISon With
a Minister.
Attorney Erwin Has a Wordy
Battle With a Witness
on the Stand.
The Iowa Demoerats--Alleged
Bribery of Constantables
Northwestern Notes.
Special to the Globe.

olOUA CIT1. TO-, Dec. l.-AG Tie coll
clusiOD of the crOSs-examinatiOn of John
ArensdOrf, the defendant now Oh trial
for the murder of Rev. George C. Had
dock, the defense closed its testimony
to-day, reServing the right, how
ever, to introduce one more
witness who is on his way from CalifOr-
mia. The pith of ArensdOrf's crOSs-eX-
animation to-day was his attempt to eX-
plain the difference in his alibi evidence
at this and the former trial. He claimed
to have omitted in the first trial to men-
ton one or two places where he
stopped on his jOurneyings the night of
the murder, and said this omission was
because he had at that time for
gotten of these stops, but
future things came up that
reminded him of them and he gave his
testimony in accordance Herewith. The
state then introduced number OF wit
neSSeS i'll rebuttal, some to diSprOve GER
tain parts of ArensdOrf's testimony and
others to show the unreliability OF a
number of the defenSe'S witnesses. 1t
was shown that Mrs. Potter, who kept
the Lone Star restaurant. and who
SwOre that the JOSephsOns delivered
milk at $50 instead of 1890 on the
night of Aug. g. was very unreliable
person and has been indicted for the
illegal sale of liquors as well as being
mixed up in
4 VERY NASTY CASE
with a Methodist minister, in Jones
county. United States District Attor-
ney Murphy was called, and OH cross
examination an amusing cOlloquy oc-
CURED between him and Attorney
Erwin. The st. Paul attorney went at
him rOugh-shOd, but was met and held
level by Murphy, some of whose re-
plies provoked a roar of laughter. In
questioning Murphy concerning the
alleged statements of Witness Juhl.
Erwin brought out the fact that Murphy
had called Juhl id liar" on one Oc-
casion when Juhl was taken to Muir
phys office by the city marshal for the
purpose of making statement
of what he knew previous to-
the first trial. Erwin asked Murphy if
he was in the habit of getting young
men of Juhl'S mental capacity in his Of
flee, as an attorney, and applying such
epithets to them because they would not
do his bidding, and Murphy replied that
he did not remember ever before meet
ing such liar as Juhl had shown him
self to be. Parrying of this sort was
kept up until the judge shut
it off. Judge Wakefield has
not that capacity for shutting off the
attorneys when they begin such foolish
ness, as is displayed by Judge Lewis on
the bench and when it was claimed that
Lewis showed disposition to favor the
state in the former trial, the charge is
now made against Judge Wakefield that
his Partially is displayed toward the
defense. Before his elevation to the
bench Judge Wakefield was closely
associated with the Franz Brewing
company,
A LARGE BLOCK OF STOCK
being in his name, though this was
shown to be only in the capacity of at
torney, the stock being owned by a
client of his and placed in his name that
it might be more easily handled in the
business meetings of the directors of
that institution. Your correspondent
does not believe that Judge Wakefield'S
decisions are Swerved in the least by
any interest that he may have had in
the defense or its associations. but that
he aims to do his duty hOnOrably and
uprightly and try the case solely on its
merits. Last Tuesday the court and jury
went to the residence of Fritz FOlger to
take his testimony, he being confined to
his bed and apparently unable to move.
1t is now said that within an hour after
his testimony was taken, FOlger was up
and down stairs, and to-day he was in
justice court to answer a charge of
assault on a neighbOr. The rebuttal
evidence of the state will probably Oc-
cupy the remainder of the
week, so that the arguments will
not begin until next week. Two
attorneys, one on each side, will be al
lowed to address the jury, so that the
case will not be closed before WedneS-
day or Thursday of next week. Specu-
lation is now rife as to what the jury
will do, and disagree ement will be no
surprise, as it is said that one man is
credited with the statement that he
would stay in the jury room It'll hell
froze over before he would vote to ac-
quit.